Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick - BFJ (329th) + SKIP J-LO (324/325th)

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:34 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:12 pm I’m on my phone so I’m not bothering with the pic. This one is still great a decade later ...

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

{copies the post you made after the pick of Manners and slightly edits it as appropriate for this choice}

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:57 pm

Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

I’m sure this album wouldn’t be taken at anytime, but I need to have this in my cabin. To me, there isn’t a weak track on here. Great lyrics and great musicianship.

Life is Grand

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 3:06 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:12 pm I’m on my phone so I’m not bothering with the pic. This one is still great a decade later ...

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

Every once in a while a band comes along that produces an LP that doesn’t necessarily cross genres, but rather bends them. This is one of those records.

Opening track is perfectly placed.

Right away everybody, regardless of what music you listen to, so long as you listen to it for the same reasons, can relate to the sentiments implied here:

I'm feelin' rough I'm feelin' raw I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars

This is our decision to live fast and die young.
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun.
Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?

Forget about our mothers and our friends
We were fated to pretend.

Fucking fantastic choice.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 6:25 pm

Was jamming one of their new songs and thought how that particular song is probably top 10 for me, particularly for the verses just shared.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:23 am

How do you bump sticky threads?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:34 am

Really surprised this one is still on the board. Kinda similar to my thoughts on Foo Fighters, in my opinion, this band has gotten progressively worse with each album. That being said, this debut is a damn classic.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:35 am

#1 on my "I hope someone else does this" list.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:47 am

The lack of Otis Redding on this list needs to be rectified post haste.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:50 am

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:35 am #1 on my "I hope someone else does this" list.

They can be so insufferable, but they've penned some amazing songs throughout the years. Seeing them live last fall helped me appreciate a few of the ones from newer albums that I hadn't liked before.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:07 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:34 am Really surprised this one is still on the board. Kinda similar to my thoughts on Foo Fighters, in my opinion, this band has gotten progressively worse with each album. That being said, this debut is a damn classic.

You change all the lead
Sleepin' in my head,
As the day grows dim
I hear you sing a golden hymn

This is a great pick. Straight out of Jeff Magnum’s mind at times it seems. Also, ‘Tunnels’ evokes images of Talking Heads’ ‘Nothing but Flowers’, or even David Bowies’ ‘Heroes’.

I’ve seen them a handful of times, notably at ACL in ‘07, split ticket with Spoon at Merriweather in ‘10, and at Jazz Fest in ‘11.

I think Win Butler lost his way a bit as he honed his triple double scoring efforts at all those NBA celebrity all star games.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:13 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:50 amThey can be so insufferable, but they've penned some amazing songs throughout the years. Seeing them live last fall helped me appreciate a few of the ones from newer albums that I hadn't liked before.

Absolutely. Butler is indie Cobain if he'd died after either Neon Bible or The Suburbs depending on your taste.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:15 am

Arcade Fire - McGill students! Agree that they've gone downhill though.

And Otis Redding! One of the great things about Spotify is the nearly 5 hours of Otis live at the Whiskey A Go Go!

And it goes without saying, that the band is ridiculously great.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:20 am

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:13 am
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:50 amThey can be so insufferable, but they've penned some amazing songs throughout the years. Seeing them live last fall helped me appreciate a few of the ones from newer albums that I hadn't liked before.
Absolutely. Butler is indie Cobain if he'd died after either Neon Bible or The Suburbs depending on your taste.

The shift from whimsical imagery to dance happened on Reflektor, so I’d say The Suburbs is a good cut-off.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:20 am

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:13 am
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:50 amThey can be so insufferable, but they've penned some amazing songs throughout the years. Seeing them live last fall helped me appreciate a few of the ones from newer albums that I hadn't liked before.
Absolutely. Butler is indie Cobain if he'd died after either Neon Bible or The Suburbs depending on your taste.

It's not off of this album, but Intervention is one of my favorite songs of all time.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:37 am

I’m just remembering the fact that Google commissioned a group to create an interactive video in HTML5, called The Wilderness Downtown, to the soundtrack of ‘We Used to Wait’, released around the end of August, 2010. That was right around the time I was having my bachelor party ‘week’ down in Pass-A-Grille, FL. A few friends on the IT side of my persona were trying to get at the source code of the video. Wild times.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:49 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:20 amThe shift from whimsical imagery to dance happened on Reflektor, so I’d say The Suburbs is a good cut-off.

I think that's the common sentiment but I fucking hated The Suburbs.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:50 am

Just came on to applaud the Camper Van and Otis Redding picks!

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:54 am

PDX's pick commish

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:58 am

Sigur Rós – Takk

Post by **brian** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:06 pm

Takk is an interesting choice for Sigur Ros (granted, it's PDX's choice and no one else's).

Ágætis byrjun would be the one the hipsters/cool kids would select and ( ) is the probably the most well-known and "popular". Personally I think Takk is wicked underrated.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:33 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:37 am I’m just remembering the fact that Google commissioned a group to create an interactive video in HTML5, called The Wilderness Downtown, to the soundtrack of ‘We Used to Wait’, released around the end of August, 2010. That was right around the time I was having my bachelor party ‘week’ down in Pass-A-Grille, FL. A few friends on the IT side of my persona were trying to get at the source code of the video. Wild times.

Yeah, this was really cool. I remember doing this at the beach as well. Must've come out in the summer.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:05 pm

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:13 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 1:20 pm I've been waiting on three legends. Two left.

One left.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:15 pm

Those are definitely two artists who went a lot later than they deserved.

duff · Post by **duff** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:17 pm

Absolutely. Those were queued up for my next two picks, but I knew they weren't going to reach me.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:38 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:05 pm

Holy fuckng shit, dude. That’s almost creepy. That was exactly my order coming up.

Are you Scottie?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:48 pm

Yep same

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:52 pm

Giff is the only person still under an hour for average draft time spent on his picks (41.63 minutes, or if you prefer .69 of an hour).

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:55 pm

Slow day at the office?

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:57 pm

shhhhhhhhhh...

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:03 pm

Well, a fairer representation would be to take out minutes where it can reasonably be expected that people are sleeping.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:06 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:03 pm Well, a fairer representation would be to take out minutes where it can reasonably be expected that people are sleeping.

Would it?

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:09 pm

Pretty sure my audacity to wait until 11am on a Monday after the last pick was at 11:55 on a Friday night is skewing my average a bit,

Just glancing, if you're not counting weekends and the middle of the damn night during the week, I'm averaging about 2.5 hours. If you're bored, I've got a great list of albums for you to pass the time.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:16 pm

BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:09 pm Pretty sure my audacity to wait until 11am on a Monday after the last pick was at 11:55 on a Friday night is skewing my average a bit,

That one hurt, but there have been three other occasions when the prior pick was made early evening East coast time and you didn't make your pick until late morning the next day.

To your credit, you took 2 minutes once, and a little over 1/2 hour one other time. All others have been well over 2 hours.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:21 pm

Can we get a list of the 10 longest and shortest waits?

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:23 pm

As someone following and listening along, I've found the pace to be fine. I think it would kill the vibe a bit if it all happened too fast.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:25 pm

rass wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:16 pm
BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:09 pm Pretty sure my audacity to wait until 11am on a Monday after the last pick was at 11:55 on a Friday night is skewing my average a bit,
That one hurt, but there have been three other occasions when the prior pick was made early evening East coast time and you didn't make your pick until late morning the next day.

To your credit, you took 2 minutes once, and a little over 1/2 hour one other time. All others have been well over 2 hours.

Gotta make sure I plan this next work trip around my next pick. Wouldn't want to make it hard on anyone.

(In all honesty, I'm astonished about how well this has progressed given our other attempts at drafts.)

((Any interest in someone putting together an alphabetical list of artists taken so far? That spreadsheet is a lot of info to absorb and we're getting into my not being able to remember 150 picks territory.))

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:26 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:05 pm

I’m more a fan of A Day at the Races, but you’re not wrong.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:28 pm

BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:25 pm
rass wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:16 pm
BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:09 pm Pretty sure my audacity to wait until 11am on a Monday after the last pick was at 11:55 on a Friday night is skewing my average a bit,
That one hurt, but there have been three other occasions when the prior pick was made early evening East coast time and you didn't make your pick until late morning the next day.

To your credit, you took 2 minutes once, and a little over 1/2 hour one other time. All others have been well over 2 hours.
Gotta make sure I plan this next work trip around my next pick. Wouldn't want to make it hard on anyone.

(In all honesty, I'm astonished about how well this has progressed given our other attempts at drafts.)

((Any interest in someone putting together an alphabetical list of artists taken so far? That spreadsheet is a lot of info to absorb and we're getting into my not being able to remember 150 picks territory.))

Question is whether or not the board can support a sortable spreadsheet / table.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:29 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:21 pm Can we get a list of the 10 longest and shortest waits?

If you can get the page to refresh, there should be a second sheet there now with those details (excluding jerloma and ryan from the shortest list).